MISHA MIX-UP

In your layout for the review of my book “Ballet 101,” you include a photograph of Mikhail Baryshnikov, with a caption dating the picture as a 1990 performance of “Push Comes to Shove” (“Ballet Education--a Turning Point?,” by Jennifer Fisher, June 7).

While the photo shows Baryshnikov in a characteristic moment from that ballet, the date cannot be accurate. Baryshnikov danced the performance for the videotape covered in my book in 1984. By that time, he was hardly performing the role anymore on stage. If memory serves, the performance he did for the videotaping was his very last or nearly his last in this role. Certainly by 1990, he was no longer directing American Ballet Theatre and was in the process of establishing his “modern dance” ensemble the White Oak Dance Project. My guess is that the Martha Swope picture in your files dates from around 1980, not ’90.

ROBERT GRESKOVIC

Brooklyn